Protests over the protests at clinics

9:31 PM,
Jan. 19, 2014

Written by

Gene
Policinski

Few topics in modern life have produced as much rancorous and visible public debate as abortion - and one hot point of contention today is simply how close that debate may take place to the clinics that perform them.

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday over a challenge to a Massachusetts state law, in McCullen v. Coakley that creates a fixed, 35-foot "buffer zone" around the entrance or driveways of such clinics, forbidding protesters and others from entering the zone, with the exception of women seeking medical services, workers at the clinic, police and those merely walking to ...